Follow the adventures of this Canadian in Edinburgh as he attempted to visit 365 different pubs in 365 days.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

#369. Liquid Rooms, 9A Victoria St, Edinburgh

We love Grimes, the stage name of 24 year old Canadian indie music darling Claire Boucher.

I wasn't expecting much of the Liquid Rooms, but it blew me away with its state of the art front-of-house consoles, air conditioning, sight lines, and acoustics. The beer selection wasn't that bad, either, with cold Guinness and BelhavenBest on tap.

I actually had the good fortune to meet Claire after the show. Here she is next to a guy from Aberdeen who had made the trip down to see her. Claire and I bonded over the fact we both have family in Chilliwack.

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Computer scientist, educator, entrepreneur, father, author of Lord of the Files, and frustrated musician, Russell Ovans is the President of the Barkerville Brewing Co. Dr. Ovans earned a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and has taught software engineering at the University of Victoria. He was the founding CEO of Backstage, a company that pioneered the monetization of social games on Facebook through the sale of virtual currency. After selling Backstage to RealNetworks in 2010, he retired to Scotland where he kept busy visiting 365 different pubs in 365 days. Upon his return to Canada he was an Executive-in-Residence at VIATeC.